Claire Green

Brilliant place to go walking and nature/bird spotting. (Several hides dotted around) paths are good and accessible, visitor centre is lovely too.
EDIT: Spring visit was fab, with so much bird & bug activity! Friendly little squirrel let up get fairly close for photos

Hadn't been in a while, there is a charge for parking, 80p for upto 2hrs or £2 all day, which to be fair is good value. There's a lot of investment happening, with a sports centre, Go Ape, and a new play area in progress for the kids, as well as existing play areas, visitor centre with sone animals/caged birds, small pond with ducks/squirrels, sports fields & areas to take dogs for a run. Ladies toilets were gross (wiped poo on the walls 🤢) mens toilets were locked! Cafe was nice, but limited to pretty unhealthy food (burgers, chips, bacon/sausage butties, cheese toasties & ice cream plus crisps/cookies/chocolate which was disappointing so left without buying anything.
Good for flat walks, and there's also access into Billinge Woods for those wanting more woodland (and muddy depending on the weather) walk and fungi spotting. We managed to cover almost 5 miles walking both the Witton/Billinge routes.

Lovely woodland walk, you can access Sunnyhurst Res which then leads up to Darwen Tower. The Kiosk is available for weddings, there's also a small house that hosts frequent craft & art exhibitions
Bit of a shame that the Himalayan Balsam has been allowed to run riot though.